By Helen Castano | 07:19 PM July 20, 2020 Updated: 08:30 PM July 29, 2020
A 39-year-old man, a delivery driver, from Barangay Alegria in Catigbian town is the latest coronavirus disease (Covid-19) case in Bohol province.
In a virtual presser on Monday, July 20, Dr. Cesar Tomas Lopez, the Capitol’s spokesman for Covid-related matters, said the man who is currently confined at Catigbian District Hospital for the last 10 days tested positive of Covid-19.
He was hospitalized due to mild pneumonia and was tagged as a stable moderate acute respiratory infection (MARI) patient.
He was tested using the Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) and he turned positive for IgG antibodies, so he was subjected to RT-PCR testing.
Lopez said the patient has been in an isolation room since the start of his admission.
Healthcare workers in hospital are armored with personal protective equipment (PPEs) – full protective suits while attending to the patient.
Contact tracing was conducted by the local health authorities.
Lopez said all of the close contacts have been placed under quarantine.
In a separate post, Catigbian Mayor said that 29 persons who have direct contact with the patient were placed under strict home quarantine.
She added that a doctor and a nurse tested positive of the virus using rapid test.
